Unsurprisingly for a rum cocktail this drink was apparently a naval invention.
So the British Royal Navy was making ginger beer on Bermuda while the Gosling Family
was making rum and it wasn't too long before the
sailors thought to combine the two. A bit of a stroke of inspiration.
So this drink is really at the mercy of your ginger beer and
at its best it's really spicy and zingy and refreshing.
So simple to make.
Gosling's Black Seal rum has actually trademarked
the Dark and Stormy so it's definitely the go-to here.
It's very heavy almost quite chewy rum so the richer the better basically
something like Appleton's or Plantation Dark will also substitute quite well
and your ginger beer needs to be good quality, quite dry and spicy.
We've gone for Fever Tree otherwise Fentimans is a really good option.
So first we need our garnish and some freshly squeezed lime juice.
So the easiest way to do it is just to half your lime in the middle and then
just take a couple of thin slices off this one and then you can squeeze
the rest of it.
So this one's super easy especially for
doing at home because you can just build it all
right in the glass. Just a regular highball glass is fine, I just decided to go
for something a little bit fancy
basically because I haven't had a chance to use these glasses yet.
So you want 60 mls of Goslings. You can obviously cut this down.
When people ask for a Dark and Stormy in the bar I'll usually ask if they want a
full double shot cocktail Dark and Stormy
or just a rum and ginger beer basically, with some lime because sometimes
people don't expect to full double shot or also
don't expect to have to pay $20 for it, just depends how much booze you
want to taste.
30 mls of freshly squeezed lime juice,
again that's definitely one that you can amend if you prefer things a little bit
sweeter then just do less lime juice especially if you're only doing maybe 30 mls
of your rum then you might just want to do 15 of lime,
it's totally up to you.
Then your good quality ginger beer.
I do just want to say a little thank you to Trish Brew who you
might have seen in some of our Gin talks, she did a mad dash over here with some
ginger beer so that we could show you how to do this because I wasn't
organized enough. So about 120 mls, but I usually just eyeball it.
So you want it to be just over halfway, you kind of tend to get to know your own
glassware, this one because obviously it's tapered
and it looks like a little bit over halfway but it's
actually a little bit less because obviously the top's bigger
and you can always add in more to begin with you just don't want to have too
much in there. So just do it like this and that way it
all gets nice and mixed in the glass without you having to kind
of mess about with it once the ice is in. Some people do like to just do the lime
in the ginger beer add the ice and then do the rum as like a float on top
and it does look quite cool but I just think it's a little bit harder to drink
you kind of don't want to get a whole shot of rum at the end when you're
drinking it, so I do prefer that everything's nicely
mixed in and then I do the little dashes of Angostura on top for that fun kind of
darker top down into something lighter at the bottom.
Just give it a little stir. Again, you don't have to get right in there with
the spoon just kind of slowly push it round and at this point you can
see if you need to add any more ice or ginger beer. I think we're probably all
good for ginger beer but I might try and cram in a little more ice because you
know that I always say more is better and then just take your lime wheel
pop it in the side, give it a little push down with your bar spoon
and another one on the other side and then a last one
just to kind of balance on the top here and then to finish off just a couple of
dashes of Angostura on top. Absolutely not necessary it's not in the
classic one although I do think that probably the sailors
would have benefited from all of the herbs and barks in here.
I just think looks quite pretty, so if you just do a couple of short sharp dashes on the
top there, and you get the nice contrasting little
rim of bitters on top. Give it a little taste.
Very spicy and refreshing. And then pop a little straw in there,
and there you have it, Dark and Stormy. So now you know
I should probably have a taste of this.
It's really good, it's definitely kind of on the on the spicy dry and sour side
so if that's not so much your thing then feel free to add a couple of drops
of sugar syrup.
But for me it definitely just kind of keeps me coming back because it's,
yeah, you get all of that kind of ginger spice up front and then the lime
juice comes through it's actually kind of surprising how the
rum does just meld quite nicely, maybe
Goslings had it right when they when they said that it should only be
made with Goslings but it definitely doesn't stick out everything just kind
of is one in this really lovely and
refreshing high ball. Fun to play with your little lime slices
in there too.
Zingy!